Photo courtesy of the New Jersey Department of CorrectionsKyanna Hutchinson Evans, 27, was found dead in a vacant Asbury Park lot on Saturday. Authorities are investigating the cause of death.

ASBURY PARK -- Monmouth County authorities are trying to determine a Neptune Township woman's cause of death whose body was discovered in a vacant lot in Asbury Park over the weekend.

Investigators today identified the dead woman as Kyanna Hutchinson Evans, 27, whose last known address was with on 11th Avenue in Neptune, said First Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Peter Warshaw Jr.

Her family reported her missing on Jan. 10, a week after she walked away from that home of a family member.

Warshaw said her partially decomposed body, found Saturday in a vacant lot on Borden Avenue, was identified through a fingerprint analysis.

An autopsy has not conclusively revealed the cause of death, leaving investigators to await the results of toxicological tests and other studies, Warshaw said. He said homicide cannot be ruled out as a cause.

The investigation includes trying to determine how long her body had been in the lot, which is between two houses and in a populated area. Warshaw said her body was in the back half of the lot, which was "pretty well overgrown" with vegetation.